Improvement in metallic counter-supports



0. E. BIGE LOW. MetallicCounter-Support.

No. 223,026; Patented'Dec. 30,1879.

ATTORNEY WITNESSES 681mm WINVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

CHARLES E. BIGELOW, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE METALLIC HEEL STIFFENING COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, CONN.

IMPROVEMENT iN METALLIC COUNTER-SUPPORTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,026, dated December 30, 1879 application filed September 24, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. BIGELOW, of Brooklyn, Kings county, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metal Counter-Supports, of which the following is a correct description.

My invention consists in providing the seat of metal counter-supports with a suitable series of perforations of the form of transverse slits, through which pegs or nails can be easily driven in the act of lasting.

The drawings show the metal counter-stiffener patented to Wm. H. Van Wormer, November 27, 187 7 with my invention applied.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the same; Fig. 2, a top-plan view of a counter-supporter having the old form of perforations; Fig. 3, a cross-section on line a; as of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 a cross-section on line y y of Fig. 2.

In the drawings, A represents one-half or part of a pair of Van Woriner metal countersupports. S is the seat. 0 0 0 are the perfo rations for the pegs. These perforations are of the form shown in Fig. 1-viz., a series of transverse slits or slots formed by stamping up from the under side with a die. There should be such a number of perforations as to permit the constructor to do the lasting easily and rapidly without searching for perforations to receive the pegs. When the metal is stamped up, as shown in Fig. 1, the upper surface of the seat is roughened, so as to give it a good hold on the insole, and considerable additional rigidity is imparted by the corrugations formed on the seat.

I am aware that. metal counter supports made of one piece have been perforated with SIUHJIIIJOIBS for nails or pegs, and that metal shoe-tips have been provided with slots for thread and needle to pass through; but I do not know of the use of transverse slots in the seat of counter-supports.

I claim- The metal counter-support A S, having the seat S, provided with a series of transverse slits, 0 0, as and for the purposes specified.

' CHAS. E. BIGELOVV.

Witnesses:

J. O. CLAYTON, S. L. BAILEY. 

